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Sweden has one of the highest trust levels in the world. At a recent policy seminar, research on how the pandemic has affected trust levels in Sweden was presented.

IFN researcher Daniel Waldenström is interviewed in French Polytechnique Insights on the much-debated topic of economic inequality.

Fredrik Sjöholm, director of IFN, has been appointed chair of division IX of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The division focuses on The economic sciences with a focus on economics and connections to business administration as well as how economics and engineering intersect.

Mårten Blix, IFN, presented his and Henrik Jordahl’s book Privatizing Welfare Services – Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the IEO Seminar ”Sweden’s Successful Financing of A Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries” on December 14th.

Magnus Henrekson, Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at IFN, has joined the IZA, Institute of Labor Economics, as a Research Fellow.

Daniel Waldenström, IFN, presents new research on wealth and inequality in a column in Vox EU. Currently, the column is the most-read piece on Vox EU.

Foreign companies' interest in establishing themselves in Sweden seems to have diminished since the financial crisis, and it is worrying, said Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, when he participated in the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum's launch of the report Swedish Perspectives on Industrial Policy, the Washington Consensus and Beyond.

Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.

How should the EU act to create more sustainable entrepreneurship? That is the main question in the book The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for the European Union, written by Niklas Elert and Magnus Henrekson, IFN, and Mark Sanders, Utrecht University. The authors are proposing reforms in six different areas to create more sustainable entrepreneurship in the EU.

Per Skedinger, IFN, is one of the authors of a new report commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers/ Nordregio.

Södertörn University has affiliated professor Pehr-Johan Norbäck, IFN, to its economics department.

Daniel Waldenström, IFN, is one of the participants in this year's SNS Tylösand Summit: Economic policy in the covid world and beyond.

Game theory models to explain acquisitions, measures of automation, and a greenness index. These are three areas that this year’s summer assistants at IFN have worked with and that have given them new insights on economic research to take with them to further studies during the fall.

Özge Öner, IFN and University of Cambridge, and her co-author Maria Abreu, University of Cambridge, are awarded the Ashby Prize for their paper "Disentangling the Brexit vote: The role of economic, social and cultural contexts in explaining the UK's EU referendum vote".

Bitcoin is neither money, a financial asset nor digital gold. Instead, it should be seen as an open Ponzi scheme, argue Roger Svensson, IFN , and Bob Seeman, the authors of the new book Bitcoin: Unlicensed Gambling.

Bitcoin lacks a solid foundation as an international currency, writes Roger Svensson, IFN, in an opinion piece in Financial Times.

There has been a shift in economic activity and away from young firms toward large, mature ”superstar” firms, said professor John Haltiwanger in his prize lecture when he received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.

Digitization, migration, and the Covid crisis have brought on a rapid change in the Swedish business sector. To better respond to the need for high-quality analysis of the various factors relevant to the function of the business sector, IFN is developing two of its research programs.

IFN researcher Henrik Horn's paper  ”International Jurisdiction over Standard-Essential Patents” is nominated for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2021.  The Award is issued by Concurrence and George Washington University. The paper is nominated within the category Intellectual Property and is one of ten nominated papers.

Niclas Berggren, IFN, has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Public Choice.